Patio Covers & Outdoor Living in Argyle, TX
Denton County
Argyle is still horse country and has stayed that way deliberately. Property lines are marked with white board fence rather than masonry screen wall, land is counted in acres, and a couple of blocks past Old Town the pasture simply picks up again. A backyard here is rarely a fenced rectangle behind a house, it is the near end of a piece of land that keeps going.
The board fence is the detail worth borrowing. Four rails, painted white, every line horizontal and held low to the ground, it is the one piece of vocabulary that nearly every property out here already shares. A structure that answers it with a low gable, generous post spacing, horizontal cedar in place of lattice, and cream limestone at the pier bases settles onto the land instead of arriving from a subdivision two towns over.
Not every Argyle address is acreage, and the design conversation splits accordingly. Canyon Falls and Harvest brought master planned streets and young trees to the edges of town, where the work looks like it does in any new community: a builder slab that wants extending and a modest footprint that has to feel like a real room. Out on the land the problem inverts, because a structure read from two hundred feet away needs mass to register at all, so post width and roof pitch are drawn for the distance they will genuinely be seen from.
What We Build Here
Services in Argyle.
Patio Covers
A cedar cover sized and pitched to match Argyle's rooflines, so the addition looks original to the house rather than added onto it.
ExplorePergolas
An open-rafter pergola over the dining table or the grill run, sited and spaced for the shade a Argyle backyard actually needs in the afternoon.
ExploreStamped & Decorative Concrete
Stamped and stained concrete poured over a base built for Argyle's soil, so the floor of the room stays flat for years, not seasons.
ExploreConcrete Driveways
A driveway rebuilt from the subgrade up, engineered for real vehicle loads and finished to frame the front elevation of a Argyle home.
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Neighborhoods
Where we work in Argyle.
Serving Argyle neighborhoods including Old Town Argyle, Canyon Falls, Harvest, the acreage along FM 407, and the ranch properties off Frenchtown Road.
Local Note
Acreage in Argyle generally runs on a private well rather than town water, and the well is the part of a plan people forget until it is inconvenient. An outdoor sink, an ice maker, a misting line, and a new hose bib all draw on a pump that is already supplying the house and, on a fair number of properties, the troughs as well, so what that pump actually delivers gets checked before running water is drawn into a design. The wellhead needs to stay clear overhead too, because pulling a submersible pump means lifting the drop pipe straight up out of the casing, and a roof built over that spot turns a routine service call into a demolition job.
Questions
Argyle FAQs
Can I have a sink or an ice maker in an outdoor kitchen on well water?
Usually, though it is worth confirming rather than assuming. We look at the pump's output and the pressure tank before fixtures are chosen, because a refrigerator with an ice maker and a misting line together ask more of a system that is also running irrigation than most people expect.
There is no fence behind the house. Where does the outdoor space end?
Wherever you decide it does, which makes it a design question rather than a survey one. With nothing to stop it, the edge has to be built: a change in paving, a low limestone seat wall, a grade step, or a planting line. Without one the structure floats in the middle of a lawn with nothing holding it in place.
We keep horses. Does that change the materials?
It changes the finishes more than the structure. Dust off a paddock or an arena settles on everything downwind, and a stained ceiling with a textured stamped floor absorbs that where white paint and a polished surface display every bit of it. Anywhere a structure sits within reach of a fence line, the posts and corners stay solid timber rather than anything a horse can dent or chew.
Free Consultation & Design
Ready to build in Argyle?
Every project starts with a free consultation and design. We walk your yard, take the measurements, draw the space, and hand you a written price — at no cost and no obligation.